A Month in the Life

When we started “Month in the Life” in 2005 (or was it 2004?) it was to use a public blog to share individual lives throughout the Pentecostal movement. At that moment, it was somewhat unique.

For the most part, we’ve done that rather well, with people from all walks of life sharing a month of their existence. Bloggers have launched their own blogs once they realized how fun it was, while others picked up new readers for their regular blogs, and a few have realized they didn’t have all that much to share. (Yes, there were some painful months over the years & thems the breaks when you’re sending out an open invitation to different people around the continent.)

Lots of good stuff over the years though.

That Was Then, This is Now

However, the web has increasingly become Facebook Nation, with everyone who wants to communicate and share, doing it in multiple formats on the different Social Networks. That’s not a bad thing at all.

Still, it makes the need for this type of blog rather unnecessary. Nearly everyone who wants to share their life, is now doing that on one SNS or another. So, we’re going to bid adieu to this faithful blog, and thank everyone who has contributed over the past 4-5 years, and you, the reader, for dipping into the lives of others and commenting where necessary.

That said, I’m sure we’ll be using this forum for our minute-by-minute coverage of North American Youth Congress in August. Because, it captures an Apostolic moment so well.

An Unknown Future

Don’t worry, there will still be blogs on 90&9. Collideoscope will still be spelunking through our strange 21st Century, while the weekly Word will continue to tackle writing and reading through a Pentecostal lens, and the weekly Notes will continue to tackle the world of music, worship and otherwise. (RJ's opening paragraph this week made me chortle in recognition.)

Plus, maybe there’s a good idea for another blog. If ya got one, we’re interested in hearing it. The point is to offer the original, not the usual.

Finally, we’ll be making more changes in ninetyandnine in the coming weeks, to better focus its content and better fulfill our mission. Stick around wontcha?

# posted by kdc @ 5:15 PM